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While this shift has lowered many cultural barriers to entry, since anyone can make their work public online, it has also resulted in a kind of tyranny of real-time data.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
Yet AirSpace is now less theory than reality. The interchangeability, ceaseless movement, and symbolic blankness that was once the hallmark of hotels and airports, qualities that led the French anthropologist Marc Augé to define them in 1992 as “non-places,” has leaked into the rest of life.
Kyle Chayka • How Silicon Valley helps spread the same sterile aesthetic across the world
Underlying the Internet and the city square is the same deceptively simple but actually brilliant idea, which is to be as neutral as possible between uses.
Tim Wu • The Age of Extraction
Designer-Researchers Mindy Seu and Yasaman Sheri Imagine a New Internet
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A Sense Of Place
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As content multiplies, the challenge isn’t access; it’s orientation. We don’t need more input; we need better filters. That’s where the curator comes in: not just as a tastemaker, but as a trusted lens in a world of endless noise.
The Creator-Curator Hybrid
A Website Is A Room
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